Nation Topics - Conservatives and the American Right | The Nation

A Romney presidency would rob progressive movements of the oxygen required to grow deeper and broader roots.

A consolidated publishing industry, along with the right-wing media machine, has fostered the market for extremist hit jobs.

Under the radar, the pseudo-grassroots group Americans for Prosperity is pulling out the stops to defeat Obama.

Despite the White House’s statements against Islamophobia, their failure to fire a hatemongering lieutenant tells a different story. 

As Mitt Romney’s campaign descends into increasingly indefensible terrain, a few right-wing stalwarts are still standing by their man.

The long-term campaign to roll back the New Deal.

The long-running feud between moderates and conservatives is over. The wackos have won.

In a desperate election, nostalgia for an America before the decline is the GOP’s only message.

Demographic trends threaten the party’s electoral future—but it does have another option.

How a former attorney at the U.S. Justice Department, former RAND analyst, and former Republican came to join the reality-based community.